When I first heard they were rebooting the Spider Man franchise with Andrew Garfield in the lead role, I was puzzled. After all, the most recent Spider Man film was just in 2007. So was...
Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike is both the dealer and the narc. Both the buzz and the buzzkill. Both the orgy and the post-orgy prayer circle.
The audience I saw it with—almost exclusively...
There are two movies competing for the heart and soul of Seeking a Friend For the End of the World and, unfortunately, the crappy one won out.
It’s a shame, because the other movie—the one...
Wes Anderson makes me nostalgic for things I’d forgotten, or possibly never even knew existed.
I never forlornly peered through a pair of binoculars at my window, as the 12-year-old heroine of...
To be honest, there was virtually no chance I was going to love Rock of Ages. My 80s were spent listening to The Cure, The Smiths, and Siouxsie and the Banshees and I happen to think that the...
If there’s one thing that the success of the French film The Intouchables proves—and it was something of a sensation in Europe last year—it’s that people like seeing love stories on screen,...
Not totally sure I understand where this recent Snow White revival is coming from (in April, we had the diverting Mirror Mirror, with a game Julia Roberts as the evil queen), but to be honest...
It's hard to pinpoint the exact moment I fell out of love with Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows. Johnny Depp, of course, makes an excellent Barnabas Collins, the elegant, dandyish, fiercely house-...
We already know how the Comic-Con set feels about The Avengers: They’re having a total fangasm. (Sample comment on imdb.com: “An Unstoppable Force of Awesomeness! All Hail The New King!”)
But...
At no point during The Raven does Edgar Allan Poe turn to the camera and says, “Poe ahead. Make my day”—but he might as well have.
This movie, set in Baltimore (but filmed, oddly enough, in...
